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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221414964

UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, INC.

Event
Heat, Heat index, Heat-related illness, Kidney, Package Delivery
NAICS
492110
Inspection type
Accident-driven
Activity number
#345369359
Employer profile
UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, INC.
Summary number
221414964
Report ID
0950644

Event description

Employee suffers heat illness while delivering packages

Investigation abstract

At approximately 5:30 p.m. on June 15, 2021, an employee worked as a delivery driver. The employee was making deliveries in his non-air-conditioned delivery truck during a heat wave. He had returned from a 7 week's leave one day before the incident. He began experiencing symptoms of heat illness in the afternoon. He drove himself to the nearest hospital emergency room. He was subsequently hospitalized for non-traumatic kidney injury.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 34 M

    Event type
    14
    Occupation code
    0

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